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HomeMy WebLinkAboutP&Z Minutes 1974-05-16 RegularMC-M-546-74 Notice NOTICE OF MEETING FRIENDSWUOD PLANNING AND CONING COMMISSION Notice is hereby given that a regular meeting of the Friendswood Planning and Zoning Commission will be held at the Friendswood City Hall, 109 East Willowick, on: THURSDAY MAY 16, 1974 7:30 P.M. at which time the following items of business will be considereds 1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS. 2. INFORMATION REPORTS. 3. ROUTINE BUILDING PERMITS. 4. SUBDIVISIONS. 8400 P.M. Heritage Estates, Section One. Request to lower road elevation to four feet below the 100-year flood elevation. Longwood Park, Section III. Request for approval of final plat. 5. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS 8:30 P•M- The Mischer Corporation - Wedgewood Plans. Security Lumber Company will also be present, but will not participate at this time. Recommendations for adoption of Building REgulations and/or Building Code. 19yy74-75 Budget. 6. A .JOURNMENKutine business. ecretary CERTIFICATE I certify that the above notice of meeting was posted in the Friendswood City Hall on the bulletin board on the twelfth day of May, 1974, at '21.s o'clock P.M. 9 Planning and Zoning Commission Secretary FPZC-M-5-16-74 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION May �16, 1974 A regular meeting of the Friendswood Planning and Zoning Com mission was held on May 16, 1974 at Friendswood City Hall, 109 East Willowick. Chairman Tracy Spears presided, calling the meeting to order at 8:30 because of conflict with Junior High Band Concert. MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT Tracy Spears, Chairman Vacancy Clyde Raney, Vice Chairman Leah North, Secretary Kenneth Fossler Bob Phillips (Arrived late) James Shore Ed Zeitler, Council Rep. AUDIENCE Those signing the register were: Joe McKenzie, 15338 Wandering Trail, 482-3583 John Tirado, 530 Heather Lane, 482-2822 J. W. Gartrell, Jr., Gulf Coast Engineering, 488-6969 L. J. Boudloche, 740 Esperson Building, 237-0851 R. T. Cozean, 740 Esperson Building, 237-0851 H. M. Yates, 5010 Pennystone Way, 482-1559 E. A. Kiessling, 15402 Wandering Trail, 482-3665 1. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS No minutes were available from the May 2 meeting. 2. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS ETJ Development Chairman Spears gave a rundown on earlier discussions which 14edgewood took place before Raney and North arrived. Mr. Boudloche and Mr. Cozean are present from the Mischer Corporation, Mr. Yates and Mr. Kiessling from Clearwoods Improvement District (Wedgewood), and Mr. Pete Williams was present earlier. Mr. Williams is interested in selling Section Seven of Wedgewood and was present for the purpose of finding out what our criteria would be for the development of the tract so that he can tell potential buyers what they can or cannot do. Mr. Spears told him that the Commission is interested in controlling density and that we like a three living unit per acre maximum. Townhouses could be built if they stayed within a limit of 8,9 per acre and did not cause the total density to exceed three units per acre. Mr. Williams had asked how we felt about Commercial. Spears said that he could not speak for the Commission concerning this and invited Mr. Williams to stay to ask the Commission the same question. Mr. Williams declined, saying that his plans FPZC-M-5-16-74 2 ETJ Development (Wedgewood) Continued were not that far along and that he was primarily interested in selling it, The Walter Mischer Corporation has filed Sections One through Six at the Harris County Court House, Sections One through Four are virtually built out, Section Five is about half built, and Section Six has only the improvements started. Bill Williams still owns land along the creek. He has no representative here tonight, so we do not know whether this plat has been filed or not, but this area lies within the one hundred year flood plain and Harris County has been refusing permits in the flood plain area. C1earwoods Improvement District has been concerned that Pete Williams wanted to put high density housing in Section 7. But Pete wants to sell. Chairman Spears asked if any members of the Commission had questions to ask of the Halter Mischer representatives. Raney asked if these were all single family dwellings. The Mischer representative said that they were. Raney asked the filing date on Section Six. It was filed March 16, 1973. Phillips arrived. Spears asked how many lots in Section Six. Two -hundred and sixty-four. Spears said that he would check to see if Section SEven had been filed. The rest of the area seems to have been filed, except possibly for Section Seven, the area along the creek belonging to Bill Williams, and a rectangular area bounded on three sides by Section Six and fronting on Friendswood- Link Road. This area has apparently never been subdivided, but it does fall within the calls setting out the Clearwood Improvement District. No one has the explanation for this. Spears may be able to find out from Bill Williams. The Mischer representatives left a copy of Section Six and one of the overall plat for the Commission. Kiessling asked what the Commission would think about a request for Commercial in the area of Friendswood-Link and Blackhawk. He felt that the Clearw oods Improvement District would try to forestall this. The consensus of the Commission was that we would not approve of Commercial. 3. SUBDIVISIONS Heritage Estates Mr. James Gartrell presented plans and a request to lower Section One certain portions of the streets in Heritage Estates, SEcti on One to four feet below the one -hundred year flood elevation. A letter from City Engineer Heaney was received concerning this. He approved the engineering of the road, but North explained that he had not taken the one -hundred year flood elevation as a criteria. FPZC-M-5-16-74 3 Heritage Estates (continued) Mr. Gartrell explained that if the street were put in as originally planned, the fill required to raise lot levels to the street level would kill many trees on a two acre area. Considerable discussion followed. Shore suggested that a drainage culvert be installed under the street to drain this area into the storm sewer on the opposite side of the street. Shore stated that he was opposed to lowering the street. Raney said that he regretted making the original motion approving the 21.5 foot elevation. (The present request was to lower the road another foot to the 20.5 elevation. One hundred year flood elevation is 24.5 in this area.) North would oppose lowering the street based on personal experience from June of 1973 when her subdivision was flooded. MOTION WAS MADE by Raney, seconded by Shore, that the Commission disapprove the request to lowercIndependence and Richmond to 20.5 elevation. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Heritage Estates Mr. Gartrell asked the status of Heritage Estates Section Section Three Three. He thought it was ready for preliminary approval. The SEcretary reminded him of the list of changes which the City Engineer and the Commission had requested be done and gave him a copy of the April 18 minutes. This will be put on next week's agenda. Longwood Park, Mr. Kenneth Yowell was present in regard to the final approval Section III of Longwood Park, Section III, which he owns. Utility Supt. Toon had submitted a letter stating as follows: " The Water and Sewer service to these lots will be accepted on an 'as is' basis. If service needs to be extended to serve any of these lots, this extension must be installed and paid for by the developer. "This memo does not guarantee adequate depth of sewer lines to service any particular lot an/or home site." Discussion broughtout that what is believed to be a six inch line was extended to the Tanner house which is beyond this subdivision and back off Crawford. It was felt that if this house could be serviced, that all the lots in Longwood Section III could be serviced. No letter had been received from City Engineer Heaney, but his approval had been received for the same data on the preliminary plat. MOTION WAS MADE by Raney, seconded by Fossler, that Longwood Park Section III be given final approval contingent on the City Engineer's approval, with th linen to be signed by all required parties prior to it's being signed by the Planning Commission Chairman and the SEcretary. If the sewer line is required to be extended, it shall be done at the expense of the developer. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. FPZC-M-5--16--74 4 Subdivisions (continued) Polly Ranch Mr. Billy McAninch was present, having been asked by Raney if he could come in and talk to us informally and tell us what was going on in Polly Ranch, since Council had asked if he had been back before us and since Council may act on an agreement with Polly Ranch at Mondays meeting. He explained that he is in the process of redividing three lots into two lots in two instances. One instance involved the lot line that was twelve feet off and actually ran through the slab of a house. The other instance involves three lots which straddle a drainage easement which is being changed. He does not think that a replat is necessary. Considerable discussion followed. It was the consensus of the Commission that they would be satisfied with a record of the redi vi si on, although it might not be a formal replat. It should, however, show two lots made out of three, not just the division of one lot into halves. North questioned whether this would meet the requirements of the emergency ordinances 212-E and 213-E. She was reminded that Council had voted repeatedly to obtain an injunction against Mr. McAninch for not replatting, but that no unjunction had been filed. Fossler looked up the date of passage of the two ordinances and discovered that they would expire in two days, anyway. Mr. McAninch agreed to bring in the redivisions, but stated that he would not have them ready by next Thursday, since he is still negotiating the sale of one lot and a half. 4. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS Building Codes Fossler reported on some research which he has done this week on the Southern Building Code, the Uniform Building Code, and the BOCA Code. He purchase a copy of the Uniform Building Code and borrowed copies of the BOCA Code from Pasadena. He talked at length with officials in Pasadena, who are using and like the BOCA Code. He learned from Pasadena, Alvin, and Pearland and a couple more engineers that they do require a professional registered engineer's stamp on all Commercial buildings. Alvin also requires the signature of an architect. Most areas use the Southern Building Code. The people he talked to noted that the Codes are no better than the person who enforces them. The consensus was that the most practical was the Southern Building Code. The Cities all alter them, however, to fit their needs. Houston Building Code was recommended by several people. Lack of Zoning in Houston might cause a problem for us. Building REgulations Raney then reviewed a revised version of"the Building Regulations which he has been working on. He noted that the City has enacted the 1963 Electrical Code and has not brought'it up to date. Discussion followed. MOTION WAS MADE by Shore, seconded by North, that the Commission recommend adoption of the Building Regulations 5 FPZC-M-5-16-74 BUILDING REGULATION (continued) with the changes that were made during the discussion. MOTION PASSED, 5-1, Fossler dissenting. MOTION WAS MADE by North, seconded by Shore, that the recommendation be made to the City Council that the Building REgulations Ordinance be passed as an emergency measure Monday night. Raney and Zeitler questioned the need for an emergency ordinance. They were reminded that the Commission had imposed a moratorium on building permits until the new regulations were passed. MOTION PASSED, 5-1, Fossler dissenting. Fire Code North has been considering Fire Zones and Codes. She noted that the regulations considered made reference to the National Fire Codes published by NFPA, but that these codes had never been adopted and that no means of enforcement or penalties had been established. Therefore she felt that and ordinance enacting the National Fire Codes should accompany the Building Regulation Ordinance. MOTION WAS MADE by North, seconded by Raney, that the Commission recommend to Council that the National Fire Code of the NFPA be adopted. MOTION PASSED, 4-0-2. For. North, Raney, Spears, Shore. Against: None. Abstaining. Phillips, Fossler. 5. INFORMATION REPORTS Fire Station Layout North reported on the layout of the Fire Station as amended by the City Council last Monday night. The East Drive has been eliminated and parking on the right side was flipped to the right, instead of the left, and the right drive was widened and made two-way. 6. ADJOURNMENT The hour being late, it was agreed to carry any unfinished business over until the next meeting and the meeting was adjourned. Se' retary Approved:; ��